Skeleton Quotes

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

~ Sherman Alexie

It’s hard to tell sometimes if Etheny’s stories are true, as you will see, so I will lay down the story as she told it to me to allow you to decide for yourself.

~ E L Parfitt

The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from a string.

~ J.a. Clement

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.

~ R.x. Bird

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.

~ Henri Poincaré

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?

~ Jack Kerouac

Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the spotlights of street lamps. It was the kind of night when you might expect to see a skeleton flying through the air, its ragged black shroud flapping in the wind.

~ Dan Chaon

Nice said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off.

~ Tao Lin

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

~ Michael Douglas

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

~ Virginia Woolf